This is why I don’t usually conform to downloading readily
digested cases. It’s like I’m always deprived of the nitty-gritty facts. I just
obliged due to the urgency of my situation. Yes, the contemporaneous events
surrounding my dire need to be ready to account for it in case the professor
randomly calls my name in a deadly Russian-roulette recitation.
I just copied and printed this accidentally googled digested
case from I dunno who ever wrote this, all I know is its badly written. I
didn’t look, there are lots of law student case digest blogs out there, but this
one addresses my dire need that time.
Judging by the way it looks, well whatever it is, he or she must've been in a bad dire need situation as well. And boy what a vicious cycle, here I am eventually conforming to the bad habit of relying on others (scratch scratch). I guess there are days really.. and eureka! there was a supply and I had the demand and… boom another one bites the dust.
Judging by the way it looks, well whatever it is, he or she must've been in a bad dire need situation as well. And boy what a vicious cycle, here I am eventually conforming to the bad habit of relying on others (scratch scratch). I guess there are days really.. and eureka! there was a supply and I had the demand and… boom another one bites the dust.
I’ve.. I dunno I’ve used every reasoning ability to
exculpate the author of the unsatisfactory work but hey.. no matter how I try
my best to tie every loosed ends I still end up not making a clear absolute
logical understanding of what really happened. And all I could ever say while
reading this was ‘WTH’ & 'WTF’ interchangeably. I mean you know.. you don’t
digest like this for cry’s sake.
I dunno. Its just that. If you're serious you write the case
in such a way that you’d still understand it 2 to 3 years from now when you’re
already practicing, don't you think?. And this is with the
understanding that you will compile these cases and have them book-binded for your future professional use… otherwise you’ll just fuckin forget them ma’men… like I easily
forget. And… goodness gracious you don’t dissect them like into fuckin 4 or 5 sentences my gad
coz you’ll miss a lot on learning day to day legal processes at it's action, and learning the
fuckin jargons and usual legal tactics when you're practicin. (LOL I know I
speak like a fuckin Italian guy. WTF)
Alright, I'll give you a word of advice on how to properly do these things. Here’s what you do if you want it fast and understand it
quick. You go to the internet, alright? You hunt the case down. It’s usually in LawPhil, (thanks to Arellano Law), or Scribd (thanks to Ateneo Law) or Chan-Robles (thanks to the Chan-Robles associates) or whatever. Right click the damn page save it to your
hard drive or usb, disk, tablet or what have you. Transfer it to your lap-top coz you'll need a mouse for this. Highlight every word, you Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V it to a blank MS Word. Change the fonts to
something readable.
Now with the process of elimination you quick read the case. You go down and get to the decision first. You wanna see who the heck won the damn case right? So you could mark him/her if it’s a person or if it’s a juridical person and that will give you a sort of a bird's eye-view on the case.
Now. Here’s the next thing you do, you read the facts. Chopping down everything unnecessary turning it into short numbered paragraphs. Delete what you think you don’t need. Nitty gritty details are not important, but you gotta be careful, coz some unimportantly looking detail may turn out to be one of the vital parts of the case. You’ll find out if you see it still popping out at the lower part of the write up.
Now, here’s how you do the ‘haduken’. In a long legal write up like court decisions its really hard to pin-point what you’re looking for right? The paragraph you think is what you're looking for might end up not the really the paragraph that you need. Coz in most cases every realm or aspects of law would somehow apply right? Civil cases, criminal cases, administrative, remedial, or whatever. You gotta learn how to zero-in on what you need. If it’s evidence you’re looking for or you want it more specific like ‘secondary evidence’ or parole evidence’ then it’s time for you to shout ‘HADUKEN!’ and press Ctrl-F. You type ‘secondary evidence’ in the search box then click and boom!.. automatically brings you to the paragraphs you need. You just have to click the 'next' until you find what you're lookin' for. Then the next thing you do is you try to see the whole picture on the side of the law aspect you’re looking for. And from there you draw the Issue and the Ruling.
Now, here’s what you do next, once you’ve finalized everything, you plug in that fuckin quick-losing-ink printer. Like the cheap one for that matter, the one that Canon manufactured as mass produced designed to eat your ink from the fuckin cartridge that cost fuckin 400 bucks each, massively designed to raise their revenues and fill up their pockets.. stupid bunch of crooks. You print it out. Now, you get a red pen or blue or pink if you belong to the 3rd gender or any fuckin marker you want for that matter & do scribbled annotations on the sides. You don’t have to write annotations on every paragraph, just choose. The paragraphs are there just for future use, so you could get the whole picture when you read it again, add to your legal vocabulary, and give you quick know hows on legal procedures in action which could easily be retained in your mind. Write just the things you need. The one you think you’ll need in the recitation. Remember, you gotta write it not only for your recitation purposes. You gotta think of the future baby. Plan ahead. You'll somehow need these handy inside your leather satchel once your practicing.
Now with the process of elimination you quick read the case. You go down and get to the decision first. You wanna see who the heck won the damn case right? So you could mark him/her if it’s a person or if it’s a juridical person and that will give you a sort of a bird's eye-view on the case.
Now. Here’s the next thing you do, you read the facts. Chopping down everything unnecessary turning it into short numbered paragraphs. Delete what you think you don’t need. Nitty gritty details are not important, but you gotta be careful, coz some unimportantly looking detail may turn out to be one of the vital parts of the case. You’ll find out if you see it still popping out at the lower part of the write up.
Now, here’s how you do the ‘haduken’. In a long legal write up like court decisions its really hard to pin-point what you’re looking for right? The paragraph you think is what you're looking for might end up not the really the paragraph that you need. Coz in most cases every realm or aspects of law would somehow apply right? Civil cases, criminal cases, administrative, remedial, or whatever. You gotta learn how to zero-in on what you need. If it’s evidence you’re looking for or you want it more specific like ‘secondary evidence’ or parole evidence’ then it’s time for you to shout ‘HADUKEN!’ and press Ctrl-F. You type ‘secondary evidence’ in the search box then click and boom!.. automatically brings you to the paragraphs you need. You just have to click the 'next' until you find what you're lookin' for. Then the next thing you do is you try to see the whole picture on the side of the law aspect you’re looking for. And from there you draw the Issue and the Ruling.
Now, here’s what you do next, once you’ve finalized everything, you plug in that fuckin quick-losing-ink printer. Like the cheap one for that matter, the one that Canon manufactured as mass produced designed to eat your ink from the fuckin cartridge that cost fuckin 400 bucks each, massively designed to raise their revenues and fill up their pockets.. stupid bunch of crooks. You print it out. Now, you get a red pen or blue or pink if you belong to the 3rd gender or any fuckin marker you want for that matter & do scribbled annotations on the sides. You don’t have to write annotations on every paragraph, just choose. The paragraphs are there just for future use, so you could get the whole picture when you read it again, add to your legal vocabulary, and give you quick know hows on legal procedures in action which could easily be retained in your mind. Write just the things you need. The one you think you’ll need in the recitation. Remember, you gotta write it not only for your recitation purposes. You gotta think of the future baby. Plan ahead. You'll somehow need these handy inside your leather satchel once your practicing.
But don’t take my word for it. It’s just my style of
digesting cases. You may have your own that works for you better than this. And
kudos to the student/s who did the digesting. At least it started up my brains a
little bit. Besides, we all need each other. Who else will support each other no matter what law school we come from, except us right? Even though we hardly or do not know each other, we could easily identify coz we all go through the same fuckin hell right?
And pardon the cuss words. I just watched ‘The Wolf of Wall
Street’ for the nth time. Para lang sarap magcuss sa English. Aw, there’s one funny
scene there. Well most of the scenes there were funny, but here’s for a
starter. You know that scene when DiCaprio was putting up his team. The nucleus
that started it all? They were just a bunch of slacks you know? A motley crew
or somethin who know nothin' about sales but selling meat, or tires and weeds,
mostly weeds. He comes up to the crew, right? pulls down this illustration board in front
of them that says 'Stratton Oakmont'. The new fly-by-night stocks company they’ll be putting up and he
goes “With this script as your new harpoon.. I’ll be teaching you how to catch
those Moby fuckin Dicks like Captain Ahab” & suddenly one in the team goes
“Captain who?” Di Caprio goes “Captai….The
book moderfucker! The book!” Ha Ha ha and everybody turns to him and goes “Fuck
you! Use your fuckin’ brain” Ha Ha I love that scene. Just imagine they were
all talkin on the phone introducing themselves to the client and all of them
were senior vice president of the company.. dang I dunno that movie was really
something to me.
Sorry I digress. Anyway, lets wrap this up. Have a nice day.
